Tag Archives: China

Once again, flooding follows decades of drought in China – with disastrous results.

Beginning on May 31, southern China experienced three days of excessive rainfall which ended up destroying 11,000 homes and forcing 200,000 people to evacuate. Initially, there were 53 people reported missing and not until just recently have they been recovered. The Guangxi region flood control office has said that the flooding and landslides affected 42 [...]

Torrential rain over southern China has caused massive floods that have killed 115 people with 21 still missing. 685,000 people have been evacuated across southern China due to the flooding and emergency rescue teams have been dispatched across the area to help those in need. According to a statement on the Ministry of Civil Affairs [...]

Severe weather hit China’s Chongqing municipality towards the end of last week with strong winds, torrential rain, hail and tornadoes. At least 39 people were killed and more than 190 injured as severe weather struck the area early Thursday morning around 2 a.m. local time. People work by the remains of houses at China’s Chongqing [...]

Situated on the coast of eastern China, Shanghai is located between Beijing and Hong Kong. Being in a humid, subtropical climate, Shanghai’s weather is moderated by the coastal waters, yet far enough north in latitude to experience four distinct seasons (near 30deg North latitude, Shanghai is similar in latitude to New Orleans, LA). Snow however, [...]

Harbin, China has a city made of ice – 5.6 million cubic feet of it to be exact. The city of ice comes around once a year, from January through mid-March for the International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. The Festival started back in 1985, is one of the largest of its kind in the [...]

Industrial machinery, pharmaceuticals, toys, food – all are famous (at times, infamous) imports to the United States from China. Due to the strong jet stream winds over the central North Pacific, you can now add one more import: Smog. Last week, YWB blogged about the rate of energy consumption in China due to the extreme [...]